Book*hug Press invites you to join us for a virtual Poetry Salon. Featuring short readings by Angela Carr (Without Ceremony), Lise Downe (Propositions and Prayers), Beatriz Hausner (Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart), Julie Joosten (Nought), Kristen Renee Miller (Spawn), Erín Moure (This Radiant Life), Bahar Orang (Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty), and Kate Sutherland (The […]

VerseFest 2020: Translate This, with Catherine Lalonde and Oana Avasilichioaei, author/translator duo of The Faerie Devouring. Featuring: CATHERINE LALONDE MAUDE PILON OANA AVASILICHIOAEI SIMON BROWN // VERSEFEST 2020 ONLINE Over 60 poets in English and French. Highlights include readings, slams, interviews, talks, and up-close festival firsts like our Dial-a-Poet and Writing Spaces segments. All events […]

VerseFest 2020: Transatlantic Showcase, with Julie Morrissy, author of Where, the Mile End. Featuring: ÁSTA FANNEY SIGURÐARDÓTTIR JULIE MORRISSY STEPHEN SEXTON // VERSEFEST 2020 ONLINE Over 60 poets in English and French. Highlights include readings, slams, interviews, talks, and up-close festival firsts like our Dial-a-Poet and Writing Spaces segments. All events free. Visit versefest.ca for […]

Librairie Drawn and Quarterly presents the New Reads Book Club: Talking Animals by Joni Murphy. The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly staff members. The book club meetings take place every few weeks on ZOOM, and are open to all.  

Join Markham Public Library as they interview author Sheung-King about his debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. This novel explores memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King’s debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, […]